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everyone. ]\Iany sales of honey can be made at snch a meeting. 

 A local bee-keepers' society can be organized if sufificient need is 

 felt for it. 



Because a honey producer sells a carload or more of comb 

 honey is not sufficient reason why his Avord should be taken too 

 seriously on the grading of honey. Se\-eral factors enter into the 

 problem. There are a number of large producers who put upon 

 the market honey that has a tendenc}^ to curtail further sales. The 

 small bee-keepers are not the only slipshod producers and careless 

 packers. 



A few carloads of honey weighing twenty pounds to the case 

 and up for No. 2, and twenty-four pounds for No. 1, will be shipped 

 this year. Leaking, unfinished, poorly scraped and carelessly pro- 

 duced honey will make up a part of this honey, and when it reaches 

 its destination in the east will disgust the buyers. 



It requires a good bee-keeper to produce honey that will meas- 

 ure up to the Colorado rules, which are the only standard, so far 

 as I know, in the west. Apparently the we-^tern subscriber, who 

 says in the August number that the Colorado rules are a little too 

 strict in some ways and not elastic enough as to Aveight, has the 

 old rules in mind. The rules, as they now stand, have a "choice" 

 grade that admits 12-oz. honey or over. Tlie range of price will 

 vary probably lo cents per case from one grade to another. We will 

 suppose "No. 2'' to bring $2.75 a case: ''choice" would be worth 

 $2.90; "No. 1," $3.05, and "fancy," $3.20. These prices vary with 

 *;he quality and general conditions of production. No two producers' 

 crops will absolutely approximate each other's in any one season. 



With four grades of comb honey there will not be 25 to 35 

 cents' difference between each grade, as the western subscriber 

 intimates. They will come together so close that ten cents may 

 span the distance. — [Foster.] 



Southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon Branch Field Meeting. 



(Reduced from report in Gem State Rural-Joiirnal.) 



?\Iembers of the South Idaho and East Oregon Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, with their families and friends, held a picnic and field 

 day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Dibble, at Washoe, on Tues- 

 day, July 16. Some G5 were present and they were not only pleas- 

 antly entertained but interested e\ery moment of the time. The 

 gathering Avas held under the shade of the apple trees that occupied 

 a generous portion of the home acre, and the large apiary of ']\Ir. 

 Dibble is also kept in the orchard that forms a considerable part of 

 his three-acre tract. This gave the visiting bee-keepers an oppor- 

 tunity to get object lessons and discuss the problems of the apiary 

 to good advantage. The A'isitors Avere met at the morning train 



